United States of America: Director, Blended Finance

Organization: Winrock International
Country: United States of America
Closing date: 14 Oct 2016

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Director of Blended Finance leads financial, social and environmental impact analysis of Winrock’s field projects, external business models and potential pathways to scale. Investors, funders and donors are looking for innovation, management efficiency and transparency when they select the organizations that can best help achieve their goals. The Director of Blended Finance stays current with competitors and partners in Winrock’s key countries and areas of expertise, as well as the evolving development trends including impact investment and private sector initiatives. The position works with the business development and programs teams to quantify the costs and benefits (financial, social and environmental) of different blended-finance approaches in order to assess their strategic value and potential impact. The successful candidate will use a network of contacts and knowledge of the social finance sector to guide Winrock’s business development and leadership teams and advise on program design.

Assist in outreach to and mobilization of private investors and funders; identify promising blended finance opportunities and approaches to support field-based projects.

Lead internal capacity building efforts to expose business development and program teams to blended finance and other social finance models and best practices.

Work with program and business development teams to build high impact blended finance and private sector partnerships approaches into proposals and projects.

Develop tools and metrics to measure the financial, social and environmental effectiveness of existing and proposed business models.

Advise on the value and risk of financing in key sectors and geographies, and devise effective safeguard strategies.

Work with business development, program leadership and operations teams to identify, evaluate and share the blended finance best practices housed in Winrock’s projects in order to drive organizational learning and increase program impact.

Recommend finance and investment themes for future Winrock initiatives and guide program staff on potential new financial opportunities and structures.

Use project financial performance data to assess scaling opportunities and drive continuous innovation, collaboration and learning across program units.